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Part V · Shareholders and Their Rights and Obligations

99. Alteration of s h a r e h o l d e r rights

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails.

(1)

A company shall not take any action that would affect the rights attached to shares, unless that action has been approved by a special resolution of each interest group.

(2)

For the purposes of this section, the rights attached to a share include—

(a)

the rights, privileges, limitations, and conditions attached to the share under this Act or the articles of the company, including voting rights and rights to distributions ;

(b)

pre-emptive rights under section 53 ;

(c)

the right to have the procedure set out in this section, and any further procedure required by the articles of the company for the amendment or alteration of the articles, observed by the company ; and

(d)

the right that a procedure required by the articles of the company for the amendment or alteration of the articles, not be amended or altered.

Part VI

Registration of Charges Registration of Charges with Registrar

Part VII

Management and Administration Registered Office

Part VIII

Amalgamations

Part IX

Compromises with Creditors

Part X

Approval of Arrangements, Amalgamations, and Compromises by Court

Part XI

Provisions Relating to Offshore Companies

Part XII

Winding Up

Part XIII

Administrators Appointment of Administrator

Part XIV

Floating Charges

Part XV

Receivers and Managers

Part XVI

Registrar-General of Companies and Registration Appointment of Officers

Part XVII

Application of Act to Existing Companies

Part XVIII

Overseas Companies

Part XIX

Advisory Commission

Part XX

Companies Disputes Board

Part XXI

Offences Miscellaneous Offences

Part XXII

Miscellaneous Prohibition of Partnership with More Than Twenty Members

Part XXIII

Repeals and Amendments

Schedules